OVERVIEW SmartLoving is all about making it easier to give and receive love in the way each person desires it. This session will explain how to love smarter so that your efforts to express love to your spouse will be more effective. We’ll also teach you three practical tools to help you better manage stressors…

Key Concepts You have different values and these differences will cause tension. In any decision, your most important value is your couple unity. Saying “I’m sorry” is not enough to restore your unity. You need to also ask for forgiveness. Forgiveness is not an emotion; it’s a choice to let go of your resentment. Part…

Key Concepts Expectations and behaviours in marriage are most powerfully influenced by our family of origin as either Adopted or Rejected formation. Your formation impacts negatively on your relationship as: Incompatible Expectations, Compatible but Suboptimal Patterns, and Emotional Injuries. Once you identify and name negative influences on your marriage, you can take steps to tame it. The goal is to…

OVERVIEW This session is about understanding our emotions and needs, and learning about the emotional distress we suffer when our needs are denied. It includes a reflective activity designed to help you move towards forgiveness so that you can be free to love your spouse without being so reactive and easily wounded. PRAYER God of healing, love,…

Key Concepts Your emotions and needs are unique and deeply personal. Reflecting on our emotions builds self-awareness and gives insight into our deepest needs and spiritual desires. Sharing our emotions and needs builds intimacy Emotional Communion is uniting with our spouse’s inner experience. Good communicators are other-centered, self-aware and self-disciplined. Further Reading Communication Levels Of…

Now it’s time to dive into the nitty-gritty detail! Before we get into your fertility observations, let’s review some anatomy just to make sure that we’re on the same page so that we’re using the same language. High school biology was a long time ago for some of us! You can refer back to this…

OVERVIEW In this session, we present insights into the struggles many couples face at various stages of their marriage, when they feel stuck and are at a standstill in their relationship. We explore the diverse ways couples argue, the things that can trigger an argument and the behaviours that are deadly for a marriage. The…

Key Concepts Approach your marriage as a mission to convince your fiancé that they are loved and lovable. SmartLoving is loving your fiancé in the way that they most like and need to be loved. Men and women relate differently, and understanding these differences will help you to love smarter. Affirmation is a powerful way…

Video Transcript Hi and Welcome to BreakThrough – Overcoming Relationship Gridlock. We’re Byron & Francine Pirola and we’ll be your hosts for this workshop. We’ve been married for almost three decades and have five children. In addition to our normal jobs & family life, we’ve worked in marriage education for most of our married lives.…

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